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I have felt close to having to admit myself before but I managed to pull myself through that day.
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I haven’t, but that has become one of my obsessions. It scares me that I may have to one day.
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I have been hospitalized twice in 2007 at Austin state hospital in Texas. They didn't treat the OCD it was a living hell. I was in panic mode. If you feel the need for hospitalization you need to find a place that's OCD smart to get treatment you need. Use your support team and family to make the right choice travel may be involved you will have to think under intense pressure when OCD in intense. You don't want to go to a place where you get ware housed best wishes for anybody in this situation
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Yes, I have been. My anxiety got to the point where I could no longer function.
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I was admitted due to my thoughts, I wanted to commit suicide
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@mark, you perfectly sum up my own experience. Unfortunately when I was hospitalized no one recognized it was OCD. That really made things worse for me in the long run. Additionally, mental health and addiction are all part of my obsessions, so when I was in a community mental health facility it was incredibly triggering and I was getting worse rather than better, resulting in a very long inpatient stay. There are hospitals that treat just OCD. I know of two in New England and LA also has one.
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@anxiousashley, I have no idea where you live but you could do some research to see if there are other programs, which I’m sure there are. From what I have learned about the hospital in Boston, it is covered by insurance and they look into all of that stuff for you before admitting you.
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Yes it was pretty bad
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I have, just wondering how many ppl had to go the that as well
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Thank you all for sharing. I’m currently terrified of having to go back to the hospital. And yes it’s so true all the hospitals I’ve been in don’t treat OCD. It’s just generic group therapy. I’ve never been to a hospital that treats OCD
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I wish I had the money and lived close to one so I could go
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Same here
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I’m wondering if this has happened to anyone else… I’m 28 years old. I was diagnosed with OCD when I was very young and it took a while, but I overcame it. I haven’t had any compulsions in 20 years. I’ve had some horrible things happen in the past, but nothing brought back my OCD. The only thing I struggle with is overthinking and making decisions. Im about to take a sabbatical from my work for a year to travel because the last year of my life has been by far the happiest and most confident iv ever been. I went to see a therapist a couple weeks ago who was an OCD specialist, I just wanted some tips and tricks for decision-making while I’m on my trip. She warned me that my OCD might get worse before it gets better, but I thought that she just meant with decision-making and overthinking. They have this program set out that I didn’t really wanna do but she told me it works really well so I decided to try it. It’s two sessions a week and the first two sessions were sort of just talking about my old OCD and doing questionnaires. I really related to some of the questionnaire questions, and the therapist was actively telling me that I definitely had OCD the whole time which made me feel bad. After our second session, my OCD came back full swing like when I was a child. I cant stop thinking about doing compulsions every waking second. It’s been two weeks. I’ve been to her several times and nothing is helping, I’m resisting the urge to do compulsions as much as I can and I feel like I’m fighting for my life. Nothing is helping and I’m burning out. I wake up and cry everyday because of how uncomfortable and out of control I feel. I never thought this would happen and im so mad at myself for ruining my trip. I feel like I’ve ruined my life tbh and even if I do get better, I’m always gonna be bothered by the constant fear that even at the highest and most happy points in my life it could just come back at any second with no warning signs.. I thought I knew how to deal with it and had the tools, but nothing is working this time and its ruining my life. Today I asked about cancelling my trip altogether, and I might be going on medical leave. Has this happened to anybody and do you have any tips for me?
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So I've had OCD since I was a child. Like really young. The first intrusive thought I can remember was when I was 5. It just keeps getting worse and lately they've been making me physically ill or throwing me into extreme panic attacks again ( ones where I can't move my body ) the other night I thought God was trying to kill me because I was thinking about ending myself from OCD+ life issues but in reality I was just having a panic attack😭😭it affects me daily. It gets a little better with therapy but I don't see therapy coming into my life any time soon and I'm not even sure if I would want to go (for multiple reasons). To wrap this up if you have severe ocd can you tell me what it's like?? I don't want to label anything without proper research and hearing others perspectives. Thank you!! <3 (My profile says all of my subtypes if that helps any)
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I feel like there’s no way out of this. everyday i’m anxious and depressed from these thoughts. i feel like i have to constantly question if it’s OCD or not. the panic attacks are insane and i freak out. and a compulsion i have is looking eveything up on the internet when im stressing to know that it’s just my OCD and im not in danger. but looking things up add on to my thoughts and i start thinking “what if” actual suidcal people think. do others with this theme whenever they do something like if im taking a picture it’ll be like “yeah you look happy people will wonder what happened when your gone” LIKE i DO NOT want to end my life. or even as simple as cleaning my room, “yup keep it clean so when your family goes through your stuff” then i panic and can’t even do anything. those thoughts distress me so bad. i’ll sit there and think how good my life is or when im having a good day my thoughts will be like “NOPEEE what if your just saying that to convince yourself” it never shuts up and genuinely makes me think i have SI or something. i hope this reaches the right people just to know im not alone. Even when i do get better in the back of my mind it’s always “people who want to are the same a day before too” im genuinely scared and im scared one day im going to just snap and do it because its “too much” do i need to go to a mental hospital! i feel insane.
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